Immutable Security forImmutable Infrastructure

The Need for Immutable Security

As organizations rapidly adopt new technologies such as serverless, containers, and servicemesh, cloud infrastructure is becoming increasingly “immutable”; infrastructure is never modified after it is deployed. If it needs to be modified in any way, new infrastructure has to be provisioned through code. We believe that the only way to secure immutable infrastructure is to adopt a paradigm of “immutable security” based on three design principles:

1. Protect the full cloud native infrastructure stack including serverless, containers, platform, and infrastructure2. Throughout the DevOps lifecycle from code (before infrastructure is provisioned) to cloud (after infrastructure is provisioned)3. Eliminate risk posture drift over time by reconciling changes that introduce risks in the cloud with the baseline defined through code

“While infrastructure as code enables agility and reliability, it also provides an opportunity to embed security earlier in the DevOps lifecycle. Accurics reduces the attack surface by detecting risks in code before infrastructure is provisioned and flags changes to production that may introduce security posture drift."

— Talha Tariq, Advisor to Accurics & CSO @ HashiCorp

“As organizations embrace immutable infrastructure, manual changes to production cloud deployments will become untenable. The approach of governing infrastructure as code, and subsequently reconciling any posture drift between cloud deployments and code, will enable immutable security for immutable infrastructure.”

— Krishna Bhagavathula, CTO @ NBA

“Waiting until the cloud is provisioned is too late—even a simple and unintended misconfiguration can expose sensitive data. Accurics is the first company to help detect violations before infrastructure deployment, and equally vigilant to ensure that the compliant configuration is maintained. That represents a major advantage.”

— Nicolas Popp, CPO @ Forcepoint

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Accurics Enables Immutable Security

Embrace Cloud Native Technologies with Confidence

Cloud Integrity Assurance

Get real-time visibility into your topology defined through code to spot design issues from the get-go, monitor for design drift in your deployment, and true up your code or cloud.

Breach Path Prediction

Accurics Integrates Into Your DevOps Lifecycle​

Accurics scans code such as Terraform, Kubernetes YAML, Dockerfile, and OpenFaaS YAML, enabling you to detect and remediate misconfigurations, policy violations, and potential breach paths before your cloud native infrastructure is provisioned. Subsequently, you can detect and remediate changes to the deployed cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform environments and ensure that your risk posture in the cloud does not drift. True up your code to reflect legitimate changes, or roll back your cloud to the last known secure state in order to mitigate risks.